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To putonyourbigpants: YOu threw out the first spams you moronic midget!!! But guess what Im gonna finish this with you!!!! FROM NOW ON I WILL SPAM EVERY SINGLE BLOG THAT YOU THROW OUT HERE!! SO GET READY TO HAVE OVER 500 entries in each blog you mental midget!!! You want a blog war you got one you sad excuse for a human being..Get ready you jerk !! You WILL be spammed !! PERIOD!!! No ands buts or its about it!! Get ready you fool!!!

If you havent noticed you MORON!!! you waste of human being..I have DELETED..every response that you put on my blog..I could care less what happens to you.>Why dont you go crawl under the sewer where you come from... So be WARNED you idiot..ANY and ALL replies to my blogs..I dont care whether they are positive or negative..or whatever wont even be read by me..Its a waste of my time to read your garbage..THEY WILL ALL BE DELETED!!!

House Democrats and Republicans traded rhetoric Monday over a new report claiming White House officials sought to suppress scientific views of global warming that clashed with Bush administration policies.

The report -- originally undertaken as a bipartisan effort -- leads to what the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee calls an "inescapable" conclusion that "the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming."

The report is the result of a 16-month investigation by the committee, chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. Republicans on the committee quickly dismissed the report as a "political attack" and issued their own findings that question the Democrats' conclusions and investigative methods. The White House called the allegations untrue.

One of the issues addressed in the report released by the Democratic majority is whether the White House Council on Environmental Quality, or CEQ, required approval of all media requests to interview government climate scientists.

The report states that "by controlling which government scientists could respond to media inquiries, the White House and agency political appointees suppressed dissemination of scientific views that could conflict with administration policies."

The report repeatedly cites the testimony of Kent Laborde, a career public affairs officer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Laborde told the committee that the White House CEQ insisted on approving all news media requests to interview NOAA climate scientists -- a practice Laborde said has only recently ended.

"According to Mr. Laborde," the report said, "climate change was considered a high-profile issue, and anything that was very high profile, anything that related to policy, anything that particularly related to a current policy debate or policy deliberation' had to be routed through CEQ for approval."

White House approval for interviews with journalists became more prevalent after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, according to the report; scientists who denied a link between stronger hurricanes and global warming were given approval over scientists who suggested such a link.

Laborde told the committee that climate change seemed to be the only topic that garnered this special attention by the White House, and if the CEQ disapproved of an interview, "it would have not gone forward."

The current CEQ chairman, James Connaughton, released a statement from Bali, Indonesia where he is attending a U.N. climate conference.

"Claims that this Administration interfered with scientists and with the science are false," Connaughton said in a statement.

The Republican minority report criticized Democrats for relying so heavily on Laborde's testimony.

"A thorough investigation would have sought further evidence to complete the record before drawing conclusions based on the uncorroborated statements of one individual," the Republican report said.

Keith Ausbrook, the committee's Republican general counsel, told ABC News the report from Democrats led to conclusions "they had already decided on."

Ausbrook said the report ignored the role that policymakers play in drafting policy and communicating it to the public.

"These guys are doing science, and that's what they do," Ausbrook said of government scientists. "And political appointees and other senior officials are responsible for developing policy and programs and taking that science and doing things with it."

White House press secretary Dana Perino dismissed the Democrats' report as "rehashed rhetoric."

"I think that it's inescapable that they issued the report on a day where [the] U.S. would be represented at the Bali conference, where we are currently talking about the next step for our framework after 2012, which is when Kyoto would end," Perino said.

Perino was asked whether the White House told employees at federal agencies like NOAA to suppress climate science information.

"Not that I'm aware of," Perino said. "I do not believe that is true."

Ok so what is the White House trying to hide or lie about now? Can we REALLY trust ANYTHING that comes out of the mouths of these cut throats? I dont think so..God..I can hardly wait to get rid of this administration... So how long do we have to put up with this garbage?

Tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, crates of machine guns and rocket propelled grenades are just a sampling of more than $1 billion in unaccounted for military equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces, according to a new report issued today by the Pentagon Inspector General . Auditors for the Inspector General reviewed equipment contracts totaling $643 million but could only find an audit trail for $83 million.

The report details a massive failure in government procurement revealing little accountability for the billions of dollars spent purchasing military hardware for the Iraqi security forces. For example, according to the report, the military could not account for 12,712 out of 13,508 weapons, including pistols, assault rifles, rocket propelled grenade launchers and machine guns.

The report comes on the same day that Army procurement officials will face tough questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding their procurement policies. One official, Claude Bolton, assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology has already announced his resignation on the heels of sharp criticism of army contracting. Bolton’s resignation is effective Jan. 2, 2008. The Army has significantly expanded its fraud investigations in recent months.

Ok so what kind of garbage are we dealing with..Looks to me like the typical Bush government.. The right hand doesnt know what the left hand is doing..Or in this case the right pocket is getting filled before the left pocket even knows whats going on..LOL

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A recession looms for the U.S. economy in the first half of 2008 due to faltering consumer spending and nonresidential construction, which have so far helped offset the housing slump, a report released on Wednesday said. Some of the fundamentals that helped prop up the economy in 2007 are beginning to look shaky," said the forecast report from Chapman University's A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research in Orange, California.

The Anderson Center anticipates real gross domestic product will shrink by 1.0 percent in the first quarter and by 1.9 percent in the second quarter, said Esmael Adibi, the center's director.

The U.S. economy will recover in the second half, but its growth will be slow and full-year growth will only be 0.9 percent, said Adibi, adding that nonresidential construction will no longer offset the home-building downturn.

Total private construction spending will shrink next year by $125 billion, compared with an expected $91 billion drop this year, Adibi told Reuters in a telephone interview.

He sees construction payrolls thinning further along with mortgage industry and real estate services payrolls because of credit tightening in the aftermath of surging subprime mortgage delinquencies and as more Alt-A mortgage borrowers trend toward foreclosure.

At the same time, home prices will fall further, reducing the paper wealth of home owners and limiting their ability to use home equity gains to support their spending.

Consumer spending will decline in real terms by 1 to 1.5 percent in the first half of next year before rebounding with growth of about 1 percent in the second half, Adibi said.

U.S. exports will grow rapidly thanks to the weak dollar and demand from emerging markets, but that will not make up for the ripple effect of shrinking construction and consumer spending, Adibi said.

He expects a $130 billion drop next year in home-equity borrowing, which cuts into spending on big-ticket goods that often fill new homes. He also sees the recent credit tightening growing more pervasive and cutting into business investment.

Interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve may do little to reverse the drag that will follow reduced consumer spending as long as banks hold back on credit, Adibi said.

"It's not going to cure it. It's going to help but the housing downturn will continue through 2008," Adibi said.

Adibi expects the benchmark overnight federal funds rate to be cut by a full percentage point through next year in quarter-point increments, taking it down to 3.5 percent.

The U.S. jobs market will be sleepy next year, with nonfarm payrolls expanding by 0.2 percent as the unemployment rate for the year rises to 5.2 percent, Adibi added.

The housing market slump will curb growth with foreclosures rising sharply from already-high levels, the number of unsold homes swelling more and housing starts falling for a third consecutive year to about 1.1 million, the lowest since 1991.

After a projected drop of 2.1 percent this year, the median price for the resale of a single-family detached home will decline 4.8 percent next year, Adibi predicted.

"There is further deterioration next year from this year," Adibi said. "Many people were talking about the housing market bottoming out next year, but that's not happening."

So here we are..facing a recession..and who can we thank for this ? I will tell you who...Can we say the lying cut throat George W Bush and his cronies..thats who..Lets see how our Republican buddies weasel there way out of this..it will be funny when they blame everyone except for the people resposible...

 A 129-year era is set to end at AT&T, as the telecommunications giant will exit the pay phone field by the end of next year, the company said in a written statement Monday.

The move affects approximately 65,000 pay phones in the company's traditional 13-state service area. BellSouth, which was acquired by AT&T in late 2006, became the first major phone company to exit the pay phone business in 2001.

AT&T said reduced pay phone usage, coupled with increased popularity of cellular phones and wireless devices, prompted the move.

Senior Vice President David Huntley said the company will work toward a smooth 13-month transition, as both public pay phones and phones provided under contracts at government correctional facilities will be phased out.

AT&T  said the number of pay phones in use across the industry has declined by approximately 1.6 million since 1998.

One of the largest remaining pay phone providers is Verizon A company spokesman said Verizon owns about 225,000 pay phones in 29 states and the District of Columbia

So why is this news? Well First of all when I was a kid I always saw payphones on every corner while living in CHicago.Not to mention payphones in every restaurant as well as payhones at rest stops..And now to see that they are disappearing... and why..Well the entrance of cellphones is the big reason...Currently there are over  220,000,000 cell phone numbers in the US. So why use a payphone when just about everyone has a cellphone. Well allI can say is I guess this is progress..Things must change...

Im so sick of your immature comments to my blogs.A WARNING...iN THE FUTURE IF YOU RESPOND TO any OF MY BLOGS..i DONT CARE WHAT IT IS.iF YOU EVEN APPEAR ON MY BLOGS yOU WILL BE iMMEDIATELY DELETED..sO KEEP SPEWING YOUR REPUBLICAN GARBAGE,JUST NOT ON MY BLOGS..HAVE FUN YOU MORON

 A couple of weeks ago my wife and I had nothing to do on a Saturday and decided to go to Traders Village in Grand Prairie. Well we got there and my wife was amazed at how BIG this place was. We walked around and noticed a pet shop.We walked in and my jaw just about dropped. The conditions of this pet shop are deplorable.Most of the puppies were way to young to be adopted.They were just lying there lethargic and you know that most were sick. Seems that this place is a front for a puppy mill. The cages were small and lit with hot lamps...No food or water to speak of..And these people had the gonads to sell these puppies as healthy..Oh my god.Why hasnt anyone investigated  this place? Why hasnt the SPCA closed this place down? How does the city of Grand Prairie justify leaving this business open? I think what we need to do as citizens is to complain to every news station that willlisten!!! And SHUT THIS PLACE DOWN!!!!

EVERYONE!! ITS TIME TO STAND UP FOR THOSE THAT CANT SPEAK!!! TIME TO VOICE YOUR OPINIONS!!! CALL THE SPCA AND COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS CONCENTRATION CAMP FOR POOR PUPPIES!!!

Puppy mills make a comeback; sleazy breeders sell sickly pets.

In the early 1990s, investigations by animal welfare groups, media attention and raids shut down some of the worst mills, but they are on the rise again, according to the Humane Society of the U.S. and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Virginia, along with Missouri, Oklahoma, Ohio and Indiana, are considered hotbeds of puppy mill activity. Earlier this month, authorities raided an operation in Hillsville, Va., seized 1,000 dogs and sent them to shelters. The raid revealed the suffering of these breeding animals. Many didn't know how to walk on solid ground, never having been out of a cage.

In a nation of dog lovers, how could such operations thrive? Explanations include weak laws, lackluster enforcement and demand for pedigreed dogs.

Under federal rules, a beagle could legally spend its life in a dishwasher-sized cage. Nor are there enough inspectors: 105 are charged with overseeing about 10,000 facilities, including kennels, zoos and research labs. High-volume operations that sell directly to the public don't need a federal license, and most state laws and enforcement are weak.

The hopeful news is that some of this is changing. In the past year, Pennsylvania has beefed up inspections and prosecutions. The state has proposed more stringent regulations, including doubling the minimum cage size. Incredibly, the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, which represents breeders and pet stores, has balked even at that minimal attempt to better the dogs' lives.

States are best positioned to address the problem, but as the regulatory battles drag on, the best weapon is consumer knowledge. Animal advocates (www.stoppuppymills.org) recommend that prospective pet owners avoid stores that get puppies from mills. Owners should look for dogs at shelters or insist that breeders show them a puppy's parents, medical history and home.

Look as a owner of 3 dogs.. a maltese a border collie and a toy poodle... Im a very staunch supporter of putting these puppy mills out of business.....My advice to all that want to get a puppy this holiday season:

1. Get your puppy from a animal shelter.

2. If you must get it from a breeder ,,make sure you really check the breeder out. Go to the BBB.. check the local police department.. make sure this person doesnt breed several varieties of dogs..thats the first signal that this may be a puppy mill

3. NEVER EVER buy a dog or a cat from a pet store!!! Most of these so called pet stores are fronts for the puppy mills

4. Demand to see where the puppy lived and to see what conditions they were in.If a breeder refuses to let you tour their facliities then they are hiding something... DONT buy from them

So all Im saying is be responsible in your purchase of the new bundle of fur.. A good healthy dog can last for up to 17 yrs and more.. So think before you get that bundle of fur for your kids.. This is a life long committment..

You want all out war!! YOu got it you stupid moronic republican idiot... When will you wake up and smell the coffee? That your president( I dont recognize Bush as my president) Is leading us down the road to destruction... Tell me what has done for us? His domestic policy is for garbage..He is totally focused on Iraq... The US is falling in the toilet...and he is doing NOTHING!!! He has led us into a war that is unwinnable... We are currently trying to fight on 2 fronts and he wants to start a war with IRAN. We can barely sustain  2 front campaign ,,what makes you and your republican cutthroats believe we can possibly sustain campaigns on 3 fronts? He has led us into so much debt that your great grandchildren wont be able top pay it off.. THe stock market is in the toilet... mortgages are defaulting a record level..Oil is hovering at around 98.00 a barrel...Companies are laying off by the thousands.. So you tell me that we are not heading towards a recession..Please how stupid are you? Like I said let the blog wars commence...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumers could pay record gasoline prices for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday with pump costs expected to climb another 20 cents over the next two to three weeks, the government's top energy forecaster warned on Monday.

Guy Caruso, who heads the U.S. Energy Information Administration, said not all of the recent jump in crude oil prices has been reflected in motor fuel costs which now top $3 a gallon in many parts of the country, about 80 cents more than a year ago.

"We haven't seen the full pass-through (of high oil prices) yet," Caruso told reporters at a briefing on oil market conditions held at Energy Department headquarters. "I would say what's in the pipe right now (for gasoline) is about another 20 cents."

If the projected gasoline price materializes it would be the most consumers have ever paid to fill up at Thanksgiving and could break the all-time high of $3.22 a gallon set last May.

The national average retail pump price has already jumped by 25 cents since mid-October, reflecting soaring crude oil costs, which for U.S. oil hit a record $98.62 a barrel last week.

The price of crude accounts for about half the cost of making gasoline.

So far, healthy gasoline imports from Europe and weaker driving demand for this time of the year has helped soften some of the price spike, Caruso said.

Caruso said high prices are the result of strong global oil demand and tight supplies. "There's very little cushion in the market ... consumption outpacing production," he said. "We've seen steadily declining (oil) inventories." 

OPEC ministers are scheduled to meet in early December to review their oil policy. Karen Harbert, the assistant energy secretary for policy and international affairs, said the Bush administration has not received any messages from OPEC officials on whether the group will increase output.

"We hope they will take action when it's necessary to ensure there is a much more calm and mutually beneficial (oil) marketplace," she told reporters at the same briefing.

Caruso warned that if the group does not boost oil production levels, crude oil prices will stay "well above" $80 a barrel and push gasoline costs higher during next spring's busy driving season.

Ok folks I dont know about the rest of you but Im so sick and tired of having to pay over 3.00 a gallon of gas... I have to fill up 3 times a week... currently its costing me over 90.00 a week to keep driving.. tha tis a average of 360.00 a month..This is getting to be stupid.. And George W thinks everything is ok.. wellI got some news for him and the rest of these cut throats in Washington..Either DO something about this problem or kiss all your jobs goodbye next November... YOu know if the current gas prices hold and dont fall that this will become a major issue the next election and mnay many republicans will ose their seats.

House, Senate negotiators OK bill that won’t pay for Iraq, Afghan combat

WASHINGTON - House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday on a $460 billion Pentagon bill that bankrolls pricey weapons systems and bomb-resistant vehicles for troops but does not pay for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Republicans said the omission would impose an unnecessary strain on troops, but the Democratic majority said it wouldn’t leave the military in the lurch.

“We’ll take it step by step,” said Rep. John Murtha, chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. “The public wants this war over.”said they were considering separate legislation that would allot some $50 billion in war spending. Murtha, D-Pa., said the measure also would likely impose restrictions on the money, such as demanding that troops leave Iraq sometime next year.

The money would be enough to keep the wars afloat for a few more months, providing only about a quarter of the $196 billion requested by President Bush.

The House planned to vote on the two bills on Thursday.

Deeply divisive issue
Debate comes as Congress remains deeply divided on the Iraq war. Noting a decline in enemy attacks, Republicans are optimistic that the war recently turned a corner and conditions will steadily improve before next year’s elections.

For their part, Democrats are struggling to fulfill an election mandate to end the war. They lack enough votes to overcome procedural hurdles in the Senate or override a presidential veto. And while they are united against the U.S. presence in Iraq, Democrats are split on whether to cut off money for combat as a means of forcing troop withdrawals.

By splitting the Pentagon’s budget in two — annual spending versus war money — Democrats will be able to vote against paying for an unpopular war and still say they support the troops, by voting for the military’s core budget.

Republicans said the Democratic-majority was playing a dangerous game.

“I do believe that Congress would break the Army if it refuses to fund the troops with what they need now,” said Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, the top Republican on the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.

Stevens said the Army would run out of money by January unless Congress approved war spending. He suggested adding $70 billion to the bill for the wars, but Democrats, who control the panel, declined.

“This amendment would send to the president additional funding for his horrible, misguided war in Iraq without any congressional direction that he change course. No strings attached,” said Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.Bill funds projects used in combat
Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Congress has approved some $412 billion for the war there, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Most of the money has paid for military operations, while $25 billion went to diplomatic operations and foreign aid. About $19 billion has gone toward training Iraqi security forces.

So I guess one way or the other this war will end. But I dont think it will end until we get a President in office that really wants to change the status of the war .. and finally listens to the people.. We currently have a president that is totally not listening to the people of this nation

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) -- One year to Election Day, and the struggling Republican Party is looking for much more than a new leader.

"It takes time to damage a brand," says South Carolina's Republican governor, Mark Sanford. "It takes even longer to rebuild it."

Sanford is a low-taxes, low-spending type who believes the GOP has lost its credibility as the party of fiscal conservatism.

"The Republican Party, I think, has really been hurt with regard to its brand on the degree to which it will walk the walk on government spending and government taxes," Sanford told CNN in a recent interview at his State Capital office in Columbia.

Others, though, see a threat to the party's brand as the home of social conservatives at risk as well, in part because of what they view as "lip service" by the Bush White House and other leaders in Washington, and, in part, because of the continued strength of Rudy Giuliani in the GOP nomination race.

"I see more anger, more frustration, more of a sense of betrayal by the leaders of the Republican Party in Washington now than I have in the 45 years I have been involved at the national level," veteran conservative activist Richard Viguerie said.

Republican pollster Whit Ayres puts it this way: "There's a lof of soul searching going on -- there was a lot of discouragement over the 2006 results."

Whatever the reason, the brand is clearly in decline.

Just four in 10 Americans have a favorable view of the Republican Party, according to Pew Research center data, down from nearly seven in 10 just after the 1994 elections that swept the GOP to control of Congress.

Also, just 25 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans. By comparison, 33 percent identify themselves as Democrats. When independents are pushed to pick a party, the Republican number climbs to 36 percent, but the Democratic number increases to 50 percent -- the largest gap between the parties in 20 years of Pew Center research.It is the war. I think it is views about how Bush is running the country and discontent with the status quo," said Pew Center director Andrew Kohut.

The decline is particularly stunning given that the GOP scored historic gains in the first midterm elections of the Bush presidency, and that the goal of Mr. Bush and longtime political adviser Karl Rove was to build a lasting Republican majority.

"He's not the only one to blame," Gov. Sanford said of the president's part in the decline of the GOP brand. "I certainly don't want to suggest that. [But] as much as the presidency, if your party is in power, is the titular head of the Republican Party -- certainly some of the buck stops there."

Whether picking a new leader will by itself bring progress in healing the GOP wounds is in some dispute because of the nature of the primary campaign so far.

"The real challenge for the Republican Party is figuring out how to keep the base happy while at the same time reaching out to the independents who voted Democratic in 2006," said Republican polster Ayres.

At the moment, though, the Republican nominating fight is largely a debate over which candidate is the true conservative -- a contest for the support of the restive conservative base at the expense, at least for now, of any focused courting of independent voters.

Michael Gerson, the former top Bush speechwriter, noted that both Bill Clinton in 1992 and George W. Bush, challenged their party's orthodoxy while seeking the presidential nomination

In Clinton's case it was with calls for welfare reform and an abandonment of liberal positions on taxes; Mr. Bush struck the theme of "compassionate conservatism" and said some in his party were too quick to dismiss any government role in issues like education.

Asked to assess this year's Republican nomination battle, and its role in the effort to rebuild the GOP brand, Gerson said: "There's something not just uninteresting about it but also something destructive about it.

So the Republicans are self imploding..I totally agree.. The Republicans of today are different than the republicans of yester year.. THe Republicans of today are mostly about ME!! And not about the people.. THe War in Iraq has further damaged the Republican agenda... So I guess all I can say is good riddence to bad rubbish.. The Republicans deserve everything they are about to get..or not get...

Donald Rumsfeld was known as a hard-charging, often abrasive Secretary of Defense. But those who were well-placed enough –- and often unfortunate enough -– to receive his daily flurry of memos also know him as a demanding boss and a severe critic.

"Keep elevating the threat" Rumsfeld wrote in a memo obtained by The Washington Post after a meeting with military analysts last year, as the press and public sentiment over the Iraq war grew more critical in the months before his ouster. "Talk about Somalia, the Philippines, etc. Make sure the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists." The memos were known in the Pentagon as "snowflakes" because they descended so prolifically from Rumsfeld's third-floor office. Rumsfeld, once the youngest Defense Secretary under Gerald Ford, maintained his energy as the oldest secretary under President Bush, firing off 20 to 60 such memos a day from his standing desk, where he worked without a chair. Everyone, it seemed, had a file of Rumsfeld memos. I once walked into the office of the senior military assistant to then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and saw an in-box stacked six inches high. It was labeled "snowflakes." 

Some are quite pointed, as is to be expected when coming from a man once named one of America's toughest bosses by Fortune magazine. A former senior Pentagon official likes to tell the story of the time Rumsfeld scolded an assistant for some perceived error, then dictated a memo explaining what she'd done wrong -- and asked her to type it and deliver it. To herself.

. As a Los Angeles Times Pentagon correspondent, I remember reporting on a snowflake in which Rumsfeld asked acting Army Secretary Les Brownlee and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker whether the Army could do shorter rotations.

"I would be interested to hear from you as to why you think you should keep doing 12-month rotations, and, if you were to change to 6, 7, 8 or 9 months, how you would do it and what would be the pros and cons."

Alas, Army officials said, it was wishful thinking. They simply lacked the troops for shorter stints in the war zones.

Some were more controversial then others. In one snowflake memo he questioned the Muslim work ethic, noting that the Middle East’s vast oil reserves often insulated Arabs from manual labor.

“Too often Muslims are against physical labor, so they bring in Koreans and Pakistanis while their young people remain unemployed," he wrote. "An unemployed population is easy to recruit to radicalism.”

Anyone who's ever been the target of Rumsfeld's tart attacks on media reports knows he often took on individual reporters. I still remember getting a call one morning from a friend who urged me to turn on the television.

As I did, I heard Rumsfeld saying, “I'll tell you what's also harmful. The Los Angeles Times -- I read this morning … “

Many reporters felt the secretary’s ire. In one memo last year Rumsfeld wrote "We need to prepare a response to this piece by Clarence Page," of The Chicago Tribune.

So now we see just how  deep this lying goes in the Bush administration... We cant trust anyone in the aadministration anymore.. God I can hardly wait to get rid of George W and all his cutthroat cronies... How could we have sunk so deep in the cra*? We as a american people were really stupid when we voted in this mental midget

Ok folks I have been reading and reading about the current state of the economy. Its pretty bleak.. The biggest of the 3 banks,Chase,Citibank,Bank of AMerica are stating lower quarterly earnings..as a matter of fact all 3 are issuing warnings that more people than ever before are defaulting on their credit cards.. From current figures the average credit card balance is over 11000. Not only that the HOusing market is going straight to the toilet. Many homes that use to sell in less than 30 days are now on the housing market more than 11 months, We currently have more than a 6 month supply of unsold homes,Not to mention the NEW home market is also suffering. And with banks now getting strict on home loans,,,what once was a easy way to get a loan with a credit score of 660 now you need at least a credit score of 720 and above,Then we have other companies that have forcasted lower earnings. THen we have consumer confidence.which latest articles have stated that its the lowest in over 10 yrs. Now latest reports state that employment will be at best soft next year... I truly believe we are headed towards a major recession.What is fueling all this? Well partly the war in Iraq.. How much can we borrow? We cant just keep printing money..So whats the solution? I dont know that if I did I would be president and try to lift us out of this mess,but George W is so consumed with what is going on in Iraq that he has totally forgotten the US. We have serious problems here... And the problem is we dont have a serious president..we have a mental midget